Contributors
Isabel Casas
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Isabel Casas is the ASBMB’s publications director.
Articles by Isabel Casas
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Nov. 11, 2022
Protein interaction in the bacterial divisome. A new target in stress granule formation. Interrogating the intricacies of the ‘happy tree.’ Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Nov. 4, 2022
A novel player involved in kidney injury response. The role of the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus in kinase pathway activation. Understanding what a linker does in heme extraction. Read about these recent JBC papers.
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Journal News
Maternal diet’s effects on liver disease in offspring
Oct. 11, 2022
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis fed female mice conventional chow or a high-fat, high-sucrose diet and then bred them with lean males.
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Journal News
From the journals: MCP
Oct. 7, 2022
A new way to view colorectal cancer cell differentiation. Secretomics shed light on cells’ immune response. Targeting the signaling pathway convergence point.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Sept. 16, 2022
Secrets of spider silk proteins. Potential Alzheimer’s target treatments. Structure of a deadly virulence factor. Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Aug. 5, 2022
Defining functional redundancy in mycobacteria. Finding aqueous pores in sodium channels. Identifying new substrates for a ubiquitin ligase. Read about papers on these topics.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
July 12, 2022
Life-or-death mitochondrial quality control. A novel pathway for DNA mismatch repair. The role of a key player enzyme in cell survival.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
May 4, 2022
Enzyme flexibility for bioenergy. A sulfur trafficking pathway in plants. Blocking germination of a crop parasite. Read about recent articles on these topics.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
March 30, 2022
The gene–diet link in Type 2 diabetes. Scaffolding and structure in brain development. Antibody mimetics vs SARS-CoV-2. Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Feb. 2, 2022
Chain length and malarial infection. Diet supplements and fatty liver disease. Effects of a lesser-known synuclein. Read about recent papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Jan. 5, 2022
Flipping the switch for competence. Stabilizing enzymes in the liver. Inhibiting SARS-Cov-2 replication. Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Journal News
From the journals: JBC
Dec. 29, 2021
Breaking down seaweed. A piece of the centromere recruitment puzzle. Making pain meds with microbes. Read about recent articles on these and other topics.